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“This approach enables businesses to spend less time dealing with malicious software threats and more time managing other IT needs that help improve the bottom line,” said Microsoft.

Microsoft Client Protection will also integrate with Active Directory and software distribution systems to reduce the time it takes to deploy security updates and patches.

Microsoft also plans to release Microsoft Antigen anti-virus and anti-spam security software for messaging and collaboration servers, based on technology from recently acquired Sybari Software. Antigen for Exchange is scheduled to be available in beta in the first half of 2006.

In spite of its intention to offer “a single solution” for desktop security, Jay Heiser, research vice-president at analyst firm Gartner, said Microsoft was unlikely to produce a strong security suite.

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The solution runs in conjunction with PGP Universal, a series of products for enterprises, businesses and departments requiring multiple encryption and digital-signature solutions managed from a single console. With PGP Universal, enterprises deploy one key infrastructure and may later add new encryption capabilities and devices without changing that infrastructure.

PGP support is fully integrated in the BlackBerry user interface (see top image) and provides e-mail encryption, decryption, digital signature, and verification services for e-mail sent from and received on BlackBerry devices. Users authenticate themselves with their private key passphrase before decrypting or signing e-mail on their BlackBerry. Outgoing messages are automatically protected according to a centralized policy specified by the PGP Universal administrator. PGP Universal uses PGP Additional Decryption Key (ADK) capabilities, automated key management and recovery, and automated enrollment and centralized policy management.

PGP VP of marketing Andrew Krcik told SmartPhoneToday PGP Support Package for BlackBerry will be available as part of the BlackBerry handheld 4.1 operating system next month.

It also requires BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Exchange 4.0.2 or Lotus Notes 4.1 and PGP Universal Series 500 plus PGP Desktop 9.0 or PGP Universal Satelite client to run.

Furthermore, Krcik said PGP brought the idea for the solution to RIM because they shared so many customers and it filled a need requested by many enterprises. “BlackBerry is the overwhelming leader for enterprise mobile messaging. By providing an integrated PGP Universal and BlackBerry solution, we address a strategic requirement of our joint customers,” according to PGP CEO & President Phillip Dunkelberger.

PGP Support Package for BlackBerry costs $249 per client, with volume discounts available for channel partners.

http://www.rimroad.com/articles/2005/10/2005-10-10-PGP-Encrypts-BlackBerry.html

Symantec officials aren’t talking about the software ahead of the event. But the company, which acquired Backup Exec through its purchase of Veritas earlier this year, said on its Web site the new product will “deliver the industry’s first and only Web-based end user file recovery functionality.” Symantec, which has been preaching a fusion of security and storage since consummating the $10.5 billion Veritas deal, said a feature in the product called Backup Exec Retrieve lets users order up file restoration through a Web browser. “Whenever a change is made to a file, that change is captured, and it is protected,” Symantec said on its site. “But not only is the data protected, multiple versions of files are captured and available for recovery or retrieval. Backup Exec “Panther” beta only captures granular — or block-level — changes, not the whole file.”

This granularity is what is making CDP such a hot technology: At a time when the government has cracked down on corporations to retain records and recall them on the fly in the case of litigation, tools like CDP prove useful.

Microsoft has its own unique vision for fine backup, though it hesitates to call its new Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) a CDP solution. DPM, which runs on top of a Windows Server 2003, leverages Microsoft’s point-in-time software, Volume Shadow Copy Services Writer SDK 1.0, by modeling how data managers can restore replicas. Ben Matheson, group product manager of DPM for Microsoft, has said DMP is more of a hybrid of disk backup because it only recovers from snapshots. Customers will be able to license DPM for $950 in a package that includes one DPM server license and three management licenses, the company said in July.

Pund-IT Research analyst Charles King said he will reserve judgment about whether Symantec’s of Microsoft’s products are true CDP, or just automated snapshot applications, after next week’s launches. “I think the Microsoft and Veritas [Symantec] announcements next week will be two of the signature announcements this fall,” King said.

http://internetnews.com/storage/article.php/3550941

On the product front, Cisco is rolling out Application Oriented Network (AON) for RFID, a module that embeds RFID middleware functions into Cisco data center switches and branch office routers. In the data center, it offers data authentication, additional filtering and aggregation, as well as application protocol bridging, according to the statement.

Cisco’s AON technology, unveiled in June, aims to better integrate applications with the networks they ride on by reading the messages that flow between applications and basing networking decisions on their content. The vendor has also added RFID services to its lineup, including network readiness assessments, pilot services and production implementation support. Other new offerings include planning and design services around the vendor’s 2700 Wireless Location Appliance, a product line introduced earlier this year that tracks up to 1,500 Wi-Fi-enabled RFID tags over the WLAN.

http://www.networkingpipeline.com/news/170702955

The company warned users of the Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam 6.x to upgrade immediately to protect against remote attacks. Security alerts aggregator Secunia Inc. rates the flaws as “moderately critical” and recommended that users apply Symantec’s Patch 157 (Zip file).

The first bug is described as an error in the anti-virus program when scanning or cleaning certain messages. The error occurs, for example, when scanning messages containing deeply nested zip files and may be exploited to cause Brightmail to process the messages for an extended period of time.

A second error in the decomposer occurs when processing messages containing winmail.dat objects embedded in a MIME file. A malicious attacker may exploit this flaw to crash the decomposer, Symantec acknowledged.

It is the second time this year that Symantec has rushed out security fixes for holes in the Brightmail program. Back in June, the company shipped a Brightmail upgrade to fix an error in the static database administration password, which could be exploited to gain administrative access to the database containing quarantined messages for review.

Symantec acquired Brightmail for approximately $370 million in cash last May with long-term plans to integrate the anti-spam software into its own family of gateway appliances.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1856717,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000614

Such security applications are designed to cut costs and simplify management by integrating various functions into a single unit, but can be limited by their throughput.

The VPNs are clientless, eliminating the need for remote users to install software, and administrators can require users to go through a security check before they connect, ensuring they’ve got up-to-date antivirus software installed.

Filtering, designed to keep employees from viewing the wrong sort of material, is based on both URL lists and a technology called Dynamic Document Review (DDR), which lets administrators define blacklists of words and word relationships.

Users of existing 5400-series and 4400-series models can get the new features with an upgrade to Gateway Security v3.0 software, and users with active maintenance contracts get the upgrade for free.

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